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Carmen Stewart Built a Career in the Business Between the Breaker and the Factory Floor
For years, Stewart worked where industrial technology becomes a customer promise: sales, service, inventory and the quiet choreography of getting the right part to the right place.
Jules Cowan-Dewar Is Making Golf Feel Less Like a Test
Cabot's chief marketer learned to sell faraway places sight unseen. Her more consequential project is closer to home: removing the small signals that tell newcomers golf was built for somebody else.
Lisa Cooke Is Making an 80-Year-Old Company Speak With One Voice
At ATCO, Lisa Cooke has the kind of marketing problem that cannot be solved with a slogan alone: explain a sprawling company without sanding off what makes it useful. Her answer is a lesson in clarity, stewardship and the patient work of making complexity legible.
Dave Lewis Changed Industries Without Changing His Playbook
A software sales career led Dave Lewis to co-own a decades-old tower engineering firm. His job now is to connect technical rigor with the relationships and operating discipline that let infrastructure businesses grow.
Donna Finelli and the Local Advantage
After building brands Canadians encounter every day, Donna Finelli took on a harder brief: make a national sporting-goods network feel unmistakably local. Her answer begins with the people who sharpen the skates, fit the gear and know the town.
The Snack Giant Hiding Behind Canada’s Aisles
Johnvince started with one roasting pot and a family bet on bulk food. Fifty years later, its real product is not peanuts - it is the industrial system that gets almost any snack from idea to aisle.
HUB International Canada’s Quiet Playbook: Keep the Local Broker, Scale Everything Behind Them
HUB’s Canadian machine grew by buying local brokerages without trying to bleach out their local character. The payoff is a useful lesson for any service business trying to scale expertise without turning relationships into a call-centre script.